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Urdu Fiction Narrated

Urdu Fiction Narrated

Haider Ali Jan

In this podcast you can enjoy listening to stories and novels by your favorite Urdu authors. Urdu Fiction Narrated is a passion project by Haider Ali Jan.
If you want to listen to your favorite stories you can email me your requests on
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Urdu Fiction Narrated episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Urdu Fiction Narrated for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Urdu Fiction Narrated episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Urdu Fiction Narrated - Aik Baap Bikau Hai by Rajinder Singh Bedi
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06/01/20 • 25 min

"Aik Baap Bikau hai" is a story of a lonely father. After the death of his wife and discarded by his 3 children he places an advertisement in the local news paper where he puts himself up for sale. Even with all his quirks and bad habits he is finally bought by a millionaire.
Rejoinder singh bedi masterfully weaves this tale of family, loss and want of companionship.

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Urdu Fiction Narrated - Khuda Ki Kasam by Manto

Khuda Ki Kasam by Manto

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04/11/20 • 12 min

Khuda Ki Kasam is a short story by Saadat Hassan Manto. Here, Manto beautifully narrates the tragic story of an old woman in search of her daughter, who got lost in the riots of 1947, India Pakistan partition. The old woman is adamant that her daughter is still alive because she is so beautiful that no one can harm her.
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Urdu Fiction Narrated - Pesha by Ismat Chughtai

Pesha by Ismat Chughtai

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03/13/20 • 24 min

Pesha by Ismat Chughtai investigates the authors encounters with prostitutes. She attempts to understand their profession and how over time her understanding of them changes.
Ismat Chughtai is arguably one of the most prominent, urdu language, woman writers of her time. Mainly a short story writer, she also wrote films and novels too.
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Urdu Fiction Narrated - Khymay Say Dur by Intazar Hussain
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03/04/20 • 18 min

Intizar Hussain is considered one of the most prominent urdu fiction writer, known for his stories woven around the experience of Partition and for his individual style of telling tales. He is also the first Urdu writer to have been shortlisted for Man Booker prize.
The story Khymay Say Dur is filled with references/hints to Karbala and Imam Hussain. The story is about 5 unnamed characters hiding in a dark space planning their escape/leave.
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Urdu Fiction Narrated - Raat Ka Shahzada (Imran Series) by Ibn-e-safi_Part 2
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03/24/20 • 20 min

This is part two of the novel Raat Ka Shahzada. This novel is part of a famous murder mystery series known as Imran Series written by Ibn-e-Safi (Urdu: ابنِ صفی‎). Ibn-E-Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmed a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan.
In these novels Ali Imran is the pivotal character, a comical secret agent who controls the Secret Service as X-2 but appears to work as a normal member of the Secret Service.
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Urdu Fiction Narrated - Aik Raat by Rabindranath Tagore

Aik Raat by Rabindranath Tagore

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05/21/20 • 17 min

Rabindranath Tagore born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by his pen name Bhanu Singha Thakur (Bhonita), and also known by his sobriquets Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi, was a polymath, poet, musician, artist and ayurveda-researcher from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Tetwal Ka Kutta - ٹیٹوال کا کتا is a story of an unfortunate dog caught between India and Pakistan war. When Indian forces find a stray dog they claim him as an indian dog but when Pakistani forces find out that their dog has been to the enemy camp they tie a message around his neck and send him back to the Indian side. Indian forces feel betrayed when they see their dog coming from the enemy side and they open fire at the dog. As a response Pakistani forces fire at the dog too. Caught between the two forces the dog is eventually shot dead.
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Urdu Fiction Narrated - Quarantine by Rajinder Singh Bedi
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05/04/20 • 24 min

Quarantine is a story about a doctor and a sanitary worker, Bhago. And how after being inspired by Bhago's selflessness and devotion to save mankind the doctor ends up successfully fighting the quarantine.
Rajinder Singh Bedi (1 September 1915 – 1984) is considered one of the great fiction writers of the subcontinent. He was an Indian urdu writer of the progressive writers movement and a playwright, who later worked in Hindi cinema as a film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer.
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Urdu Fiction Narrated - Yazid (يزيد) by Saadat Hassan Manto
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04/25/20 • 21 min

In the story, Yazid, urdu يزيد, Manto explores the concept of an enemy. Based on the aftermaths of India Pakistan Partition of 1947, the story discusses how people reacts when they first find out that India is closing all the rivers that provide water to Pakistan. The protagonist of the story karim Daad, is a humble but an intelligent man who questions his fellow villagers behaviors towards India after receiving the news that soon India wants to destroy Pakistan by closing its water supplies.
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Urdu Fiction Narrated - Raat Ka Shahzada (Imran Series) by Ibn-e-safi_Part 3
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03/30/20 • 32 min

This is part three of the novel Raat Ka Shahzada. This novel is part of a famous murder mystery series known as Imran Series written by Ibn-e-Safi (Urdu: ابنِ صفی‎). Ibn-E-Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmed a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan.
In these novels Ali Imran is the pivotal character, a comical secret agent who controls the Secret Service as X-2 but appears to work as a normal member of the Secret Service.
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How many episodes does Urdu Fiction Narrated have?

Urdu Fiction Narrated currently has 12 episodes available.

What topics does Urdu Fiction Narrated cover?

The podcast is about Fiction and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Urdu Fiction Narrated?

The episode title 'Aik Baap Bikau Hai by Rajinder Singh Bedi' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Urdu Fiction Narrated?

The average episode length on Urdu Fiction Narrated is 25 minutes.

How often are episodes of Urdu Fiction Narrated released?

Episodes of Urdu Fiction Narrated are typically released every 8 days.

When was the first episode of Urdu Fiction Narrated?

The first episode of Urdu Fiction Narrated was released on Mar 4, 2020.

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